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I love a lot of things about Pittsburgh. There’s food and art and science and nature and more, but there are things that rocket up to the top of that list as easy favorites. Bridges. Pierogies. Dinosaurs all over the place. But mostly, and you’ll hear this all over the country, its the people.

Long ago, in an effort to standardize city names, President Benjamin Harrison signed a declaration that meant all of the Pittsburghs in the U.S. — and there were several — would lose their “H”. “Pittsburgh” would become “Pittsburg”. But the people in the Pittsburg in Pennsylvania were having none of that silliness, and so after a lengthy public campaign by her citizenry, we got our “H” back.

One could say that the resistance to conform was old-fashioned, against the tide of progress. I see it as one more way that the people of the region recognized their identity and clung to it, fought for it, government mandates be damned.

So: on February 1st, 2012, “Monster Haiku Vol. 1” launched for presale. Four months later, Second Block Studio wrote a check to March of Dimes.

If you purchased a book or poster or painting, if you attended the Wildcard show on April 13, if you tweeted about Monster Haiku or liked or shared us on Facebook, you helped us raise over $3,000 for March of Dimes.

…with a comma and EVERYTHING. THANK YOU!

The support we got for this project was truly overwhelming and we are so grateful to everyone who helped to make this journey a success. It has been one of the most satisfying creative endeavors I’ve ever been a part of, and we couldn’t have done it without you.